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SHOTS FIRED! (Property owner reported to have fired gun in air near Camp Cindy)
Lone Star Iconoclast ^ | 10:15am (Central) August 14, 2005 | Deborah Mathews - reporting for The Iconoclast

Posted on 08/14/2005 9:36:45 AM PDT by tgslTakoma

Camp Casey is becoming very organized, with how-to signs placed about. Ann Wright said, "That's what we are trying to do."

Let me read you the schedule posted on a tree: "9:15 camp meeting; 10 a.m. inter-faith service, 10:30 a.m., "Food-Not-Bombs Breakfast at Peace House," and....

"Wait! Someone is firing a gun. (pause). He fired it into the air about five times. He appears to be a local inside the fence line on private property. Now he has thrown what looks like a shotgun into the front seat of a pickup, and he's stomping off out of sight. I wonder where he went.

"Now he's coming back out. I'm out here standing on the road. He's got a no parking sign in his hand, walking toward his fence. I'm going to go try to talk to him. I've got to hang up."

(three minutes later)

I went over and talked to the man. He is Larry Mattlage, who says he is on his property and just posted a no-parking sign.

"We're going to start doing our war and it's going to be underneath the law," he told me. "Whatever it takes. So y'all go find another place to do whatever you do. 'Cause this is our front yard and back yard."

I asked, "Do you mean the protestors?"

Wait.....now there's some Secret Service and cops. I'm going to get closer to hear what they're saying. People in bullet-proof vests are here now. Two Secret Service agents are now walking up his driveway towards his house, with Mr. Mattlage. A member of the Sheriff's Department has arrived. Mr. Mattlage is waving his arms now. All of them are now walking back this way.

Now they are between the lane and the house. He's at the fence now. Let me record what they are saying. I'll call right back.

Editor's Note: Permission is granted to reprint the information and photographs appearing in this feature about Cindy Sheehan's visit to Crawford and activities at The Peace House. Attribution would be appreciated. — W. Leon Smith, publisher, The Lone Star Iconoclast


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: California; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: bang; banglist; cindysheehan
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To: timpad

Hah! Wait til you get hit by the whole swarm of them. They do actually wait and send out some kind of signal (this per the Discovery Science channel) then all of them chow down at once. I used to think I just imagined that they did this, but science has confirmed it. There have been occasions when, once they hit me, I looked down and saw my whole foot covered with them. Very painful, plus it all swells--and it doesn't go away soon.


121 posted on 08/14/2005 10:34:15 AM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: hipaatwo

Well, if they're going to post the guy's address, I may as well send him a gift certificate for http://www.cheaperthandirt.com .

They used to sell rubber buckshot. And reloading supplies.


122 posted on 08/14/2005 10:34:15 AM PDT by Stegall Tx (This space intentionally left blank.)
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To: Stegall Tx

"Can this stuff be delivered by crop duster?"

You would need a big nozzle, it can be a bit chunky. A truck with a pressurized hose outlet to the side might work. Vacumn pumps are used in the field.
Someone must have the right equiptment down there. You don't want to freak out the good guys however.


123 posted on 08/14/2005 10:34:22 AM PDT by HereInTheHeartland (The Democrat party is the official party of the Morlocks.)
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To: tsmith130

LOL


124 posted on 08/14/2005 10:34:36 AM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: SouthTexas
It's not hot here, Texas is just a warm-up stop for the troops going to Iraq. ;)

If you say so:) My month in Tx, was July in San Antonio, and I wilted. The locals liked to kid me with, "This is nothing, you should be in Houston." I don't know how you do it.

125 posted on 08/14/2005 10:34:37 AM PDT by not_apathetic_anymore
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To: tgslTakoma

Don't mess with Texas.


126 posted on 08/14/2005 10:35:23 AM PDT by JCEccles
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To: 76834
They make enough noise to make folks nervous tho

Nothing like the sound of the slaming shut of a 12 guage pump shotgun to up the pucker factor if you are on the receiving end. :-)

127 posted on 08/14/2005 10:35:26 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: tsmith130

Spitwads!


128 posted on 08/14/2005 10:35:34 AM PDT by TexasTransplant (NEMO ME IMPUNE LACESSET)
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To: veronica
a la Kent State

Lefties always forget that Kent State was a shutout. Ohio NG 4, Lefties 0.

129 posted on 08/14/2005 10:36:03 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
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To: hipaatwo
Yeah. . .those DU trolls are all bad-a$$ on the net, and I will bet you an adult beverage not one, not ONE has the balls to come by his place, walk up to his door and tell him anything to his face.

Cowards.
130 posted on 08/14/2005 10:36:37 AM PDT by Gunrunner2
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To: Stegall Tx

They are googling him all over the place. I hope they don't start harassing him, for his sake.


131 posted on 08/14/2005 10:36:42 AM PDT by hipaatwo (Thinking of a good tagline)
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To: tsmith130; Gunrunner2
There...that outta scare 'em but good.

Millions of tiny little paper cuts. :-)

132 posted on 08/14/2005 10:36:50 AM PDT by RadioAstronomer (Senior member of Darwin Central)
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To: hipaatwo
Ping to post #110. I feel for this man now that DU has his personal info platered on their website.

Great chance for him, though, to make the DU'ers pay for any violence they incite.

133 posted on 08/14/2005 10:38:12 AM PDT by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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To: kristinn

"He says their concern is not about the politics of the demonstration, just that it is getting to be too much for the community."

Liberals, interlopers(parasites) who need to GET A LIFE, of their own!


134 posted on 08/14/2005 10:38:13 AM PDT by SunnySide (Ephes2:8 ByGraceYou'veBeenSavedThruFaithAGiftOfGodSoNoOneCanBoast)
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To: Gunrunner2; hipaatwo; kristinn

Wonder how those freaks would like it if we posted their personal info all over the internet? That's the difference between us--Freepers wouldn't (or if someone tried, it would be quickly removed from the board).


135 posted on 08/14/2005 10:38:40 AM PDT by MizSterious (Now, if only we could convince them all to put on their bomb-vests and meet in Mecca...)
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To: hipaatwo
Well, that'll really help their cause with the man, won't it?

What idiots!

The man is concerned for his community's safety and they set loose their hatemongerers* to stalk the man.

Don't the residents of Crawford have civil rights that are being violated by the Leftist Moonbats who have camped out in front of their homes?

*Intentional misspelling, to mock those Moonbats who continually call us war-mongerers

136 posted on 08/14/2005 10:38:44 AM PDT by tgslTakoma
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To: not_apathetic_anymore
I had a friend move to the Dallas area from Portland, Oregon. He said his son came home from school the first day and said, "Dad ... they wanted us to play ... OUTSIDE!!"
137 posted on 08/14/2005 10:38:51 AM PDT by Stegall Tx (This space intentionally left blank.)
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To: Terriergal

C'mon down ... an indoor range just a block away from me rents 'em. Whaddayawannatry? MP5? Uzi? M16? Grease Gun? AUG?


138 posted on 08/14/2005 10:38:51 AM PDT by ctdonath2
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To: Stegall Tx

LOL!


139 posted on 08/14/2005 10:39:42 AM PDT by Tijeras_Slim (Now that taglines are cool, I refuse to have one.)
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To: ErnBatavia

maybe they can be hauled away as vagrants[def. wanderer,esp. without visable means of support]


140 posted on 08/14/2005 10:40:26 AM PDT by wolfcreek
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